i have authority as president for the defense department and interior department to get vaccinated. that's an authority i possess. tonight, i'm announcing i will require all of nearly 300,000 educators in federal paid program, head start program, to be vaccinated to protect our youngest, most precious americans, and give parents comfort. and tonight, i'm calling on all governors to require vaccinations for all teachers and staff. some already have done so. we need more to step up. vaccination requirements in schools are nothing new. they work. they are overwhelmingly supported by educators and their unions. and all school officials trying to do the right thing for our children, i will always be on your side. let me be blunt. my plan also takes on elected officials in states that are undermining you in these lifesaving actions. right now, local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor threatens picks a fight with them and even threatens their salaries or their jobs. talk about bullying the school. if they will not help, if these governors w

the defense department in the interior department to get vaccinated. that's authority i possess. tonight, i'm announcing that we require fall of nearly 300000 educators in the federal head page program. head start programs must be vaccine is all to protect your youngest. our youngest, most precious americans and give parents a comfort. and tonight i'm calling all governors to require vaccination for all teachers and staff. some already have done so we need more to step up vaccination requirements. the schools are nothing new. they work there overwhelmingly supported by educators and unions and all school officials trying to do the right thing by our children. i'll always be on your side. let me be blind. my plan also takes on elected officials and states that are undermining you in these lifesaving actions right now. local school officials are trying to keep children safe in append demik while their governor picks a fight with them and even threatens their salaries or their jobs. talk about bullying schools if they're not health, these governors won't

my administration is already required teachers of the schools run by the defense department because ie the authority as president of the federal system, the defense department and the interior department to get vaccinated. that's an authority i possess. tonight i'm announcing that we will require all or nearly 300,000 educators in the federal head start program must be vaccinated as well to protect our youngest, most precious americans. and give parents comfort. tonight i'm calling on all governors to require vaccination for all teachers and staff. some already have done so. we need more to step up. vaccination requirements and schools are nothing new. they work. they are overwhelmingly supported by educators and their unions. all school officials trying to do the right thing by our children. i'll always be on your side. let me be blunt. my plan also takes on elected officials in states that are undermining you and these life-saving actions. right now local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor picks a fight with them and even threatens t

my administration is already required teachers at the schools run by the defense department, because i have the authority as president, with the defense department and the interior department, to get vaccinated. that is the authority i possess. tonight i am announcing that we'll require all of nearly 300,000 educators in the head start program must be vaccinated as well to protect your youngest, our youngest, most precious americans, and give parents comfort. tonight i am calling on all governors to require vaccination for all teachers and staff. some already have done so. we need more to step up. vaccination requirements in schools are nothing new. they work. they are overwhelmingly supported by educators and their unions. and all school officials trying to do the right thing by our children, i will always be on your side. let me be blunt -- my plan also takes on elected officials in states that are undermining you in these life-saving actions. right now, local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while there governor picks a fight with them and even threa

because i have the authority as president of the federal system the defense department, and the interior department, to get vaccinated that's authority i possess tonight, i'm announcing i will require all of nearly 300,000 educators in the federal program, head start program, must be vaccinated as well to protect your youngest, our youngest, most precious american, and give parents the comfort. and tonight, i'm calling on all governors to require vaccination for all teachers and staff some already have done so. we need more to step up. vaccination requirements in schools are nothing new. they work. they're overwhelmingly supported by educators and their unions and all school officials trying to do the right thing by our children, i'll always be on your side let me be blunt. my plan also takes on elected officials in states that are undermining you in these life saving actions right now, local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor picks a fight with them and even threatens their salaries or their jobs talk about bullying in schools if they'll

my administration has already acquired teachers at the schools run by the defense department because i have the authority in the federal system, the defense department and the interior department to get vaccinated. that's authority i possess. tonight i'm announcing that i'll require all of nearly 300,000 educators in the federal head start programs must be vaccinated as well to protect your youngest, our youngest, most precious americans and give parents the comfort, and tonight i'm calling on all governors to require all vaccinations for all teachers and staff. some already have done so. we need more to step up. vaccination requirements in schools are nothing new. they work. they are overwhelmingly supported by educators and their unions, and all school officials trying do the right thing by our children. i'll always be on your side. let me be blunt. my plan also takes on elected officials in states that are undermining you and these life-saving actions. right now local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor picks a fight with them and e

>> whitaker: the small defense department agency was given a single purpose: prevent surprises like thatappening again. so dr. hepburn finds academics, companies, inventors working in garages, and pushes them to deliver. >> hepburn: what we don't do-- we don't say, "okay, here's our problem. here's your blank check. come back to us in three to five years, we'll see how you do." >> whitaker: you're on them? >> hepburn: "active program management" is what we call it. okay? ( laughs ) >> whitaker: dr. hepburn showed us a few current projects. some sound like they're from an episode of "star trek." consider a ship like the u.s.s. "theodore roosevelt," hobbled last year when 1,271 crew members tested positive for the coronavirus. what if everyone on board had their health monitored with this subdermal implant, now in late stage testing? it's not some dreaded government microchip to track your every move, but a tissue-like gel engineered to continuously test your blood. >> hepburn: it's a sensor. >> whitaker: this tiny green thing in there? >> hepburn: that tiny green thing in there. you put i

within the defense department, with the secretary of defense. within the nsc, with the national security adviser. you know, all of these entities and all of these bodies were integral to this failure. right now, 20 years ter 9/11, every conceivable terrorist organization, maybe with the exception of al qaeda -- every conceivable terrorist ganization is leaps and bounds more influential than they were two decades ago and where we have several groups that have sprung up that didn't exist, that have come to enormous -- come to be able to control territory in large swaths, at least temporarily. this was something we never saw in the pre-9/11 environment. >> help me just understand, then, who should resign. >> [ chuckles ] i -- >> is it political leadership? >> i think there should be political resignations. i'm surprised that there -- and, again, there's a difference between resigning because you disagreeh the course of action. that window has passed, right? the mattis-like resignation, that window passed. right now it's resigning because you realiz

um, dick cheney leaves the defense department and goes and has halliburton himself. and he spent the entire 1900 ninety's, building up the halliburton war empire. well, if we're going to talk about star wars, we might as well invite darth vader. happy to accept it. then he comes back into power as vice president. and then they start hiring halliburton too, you know, in advance, even of us troops going into iraq, halliburton, personnel and equipment was being deployed to the golf. it's hard to, to look at this and not say, these guys had a very long term plan for how they were going to increase the powerful infrastructure of private companies. what we've essentially done is to create a network of corporations that have the fire power of small nation states that could, you know, over throw some small governments around the world. nations we in the united states have privatize the ultimate public function. ward. you know, bombs, i've got a time limit delay food emissions to us. so by that through the in iraq, the f sixteens. and as a teens were firing 6000000 dollars wi

the department of defense is clearly not getting enough bang for the buck for the dollars it spins. because of dod's mammoth size can even marginal improvements and reforms can have an outsized impact. therefore anywhere the department can be more efficiently manage, improved or streamlined attempts must be made to do so on a continual basis. the ever-shrinking fighting force does not advocate reducing the defense budget topline but rather urges the pentagon and congress to get more bang for the buck for the dollars that s brewed by reforming the bad processes. we should care more about outputs than inputs, and the pentagon should measure those outputs with performance goals that ensure dod is better, faster, and cheaper than our adversaries, particularly china whose purchasing power today is now greater than ours. him china gets more bang for r one then the united states does for our dollars. let me go through the ticking time bombs. one of them that contributes to the ever-shrinking fighting forces you these broken acquisition system that continues to cost more, take longer and pro

bill for the defense department because i support our troops. we need to ensure they have the resources they need going forward. when he goes to conference, i hope that there is more accountability language putting the bill so that i can support it pretty. >> houston texas, republican good morning to you predict. >> good morning. i don't know if the representative klein address this or not, two things. actually three there so many thanks but people keep talking about how this in this real rich countries have medical and educational and they go for free. can somebody please tell the market people, just how much taxes the people in those countries pay for that. i'm here to tell you that the taxes and the american people would not want to pay. and chuck schumer yesterday, he gets disgusting after a while because you know, you hear things and people accept them. and the fact that chuck schumer is in congress said that social security if this debt ceiling and the republicans didn't get on board with this doubts the social security checks will not be

and now today again, defense department people are before us and a question was asked and the answer to the senator was, well, you have to ask the state department that. senator kaine gently but fatherly sent a message to the administration at our last classified hearing that we need to cut that out, that members of the defense department need to be ready for the questions that we have asked and that we're going to ask. so i object to the continuation of that in this hearing today. while i'm at it, i would also point out general milley, i appreciate your statement and i read it and i understand what you're trying to say. but further than what you mentioned, the allegation is that you told combatant commanders to report back to you. our clear understanding is that they are not in the -- you are not in their chain of command that they report directly to the commander in chief through the secretary. and so to the extent you told them to report to you, they were not in your chain of command. let me see if i can get one question in here, having taken two minutes to mention a very importan

and we ask them a question, they say, well, you have to ask the defense department that. and now, today, again, defense department people are before us and a question was asked and the answer to senator inhofe, as well, you have to ask the state department that. senator kaine gently but fatherly sent a message to the administration at our last classified hearing that we need to cut that out. that members of the defense department need to be ready for the questions that we have asked and that we're going to ask. and so i object to the continuation of that in this hearing today. while i'm at it, i would also point out, general milley, i appreciate your statement and i've read it. and i understand what you're trying to say. but further than what you mentioned, the mention is that you told combatant commanders to report back to you. our clear understanding is that they are not in the chain of command -- you are not in their chain of command, that they report directly to the commander in chief through the secretary. so to the extent that you told them to report to you, that th

he appointed 2 people, one of the state department and one of the defense department who are in charge of reviewing cases and bringing them to the highest levels of the, of the national security council to review review those cases and recommending a release or otherwise. so i definitely will push back on can kind of point that the u. s. does not want to close down one final day. so 1st of all, president obama was making a concerted effort to do so. pointing to envoys of the state and defense departments to do so. but another something that has not been mentioned that that have been part of the difficulty and closing down on cono bay is that's when we decided to release somebody one final day. we have to release them either to their home country or to a 3rd country if their home country wouldn't take them. and in many to in all cases, we have to we have to receive assurances from that country that we were sending them to, that they would not be tortured or detained, or unfairly treated once they got back. and in many cases, we actually were not able to receive those assurances from the

at the department of defense, you were part of those discussions about whether it should be closed or not, but that seems to be pushed back on closing one time a bay down, it was seen as a necessity, wasn't it? yeah, so i actually worked under the obama administration. i was not a political appointee. i was civil servants, but i my, my spans both firms of the obama administration. and so i can tell you 1st county that president obama definitely tried to close down one day. he appointed 2 people, one of the state departments and one of the defense department who are in charge of reviewing cases and bringing them to the highest levels of the, of the national security council to review review those cases and recommending a release or otherwise. so i definitely will push back on can kind of point that, that the us does not want to close down one final day. so 1st of all, president obama was making a concerted effort to do so pointing to envoys of the state and defense departments to do so. but another, something that has not been mentioned that and that has been part of the difficulty in

it became a how to do it for the defense department. i was brought up to the white house to make the primary separate dairies weather than everybody. and they said she would have thought of leaving noah creative forces, other cultures in by us dollars was all, it was a dollar inflow. so the more we spend abroad, whether on military spending or the buyer or industry, all this money, recycled. and actually it's the balance of was financing a bunch of what is foreign countries by us treasury. so there it goes, they don't buy corporate spots work or not. so this is an explanation of how the us use the international monetary fun to control. and the other countries and make better countries. it can be one u. s. foreign policy. it shows how the world bank against other countries, independent and their own food had to rely on us agriculture. it showed us control, great organizations was designed to break in the foreign markets and especially in the united states, had essentially set out during world war 2 story england and a rival imperialist p

a mediately upon publishing that book within a month term and con, asked me to join and the defense department gave the institute $85000.00 grant, much more than i got the book for me to explain to them how a very it was worked. and herman come so that i would explain how american and monetary and realism was running rings around british colonial imperialism, and of the biggest ministry. and instead of being spurring and a reaction on foreign countries, not so dollars, it became a how to do a defense department. ca. i was brought up to the white house to meet treasury secretaries rather than everybody. and they said she would have thought of leaving noah, crated old forces. other countries in by us dollars was all and was a dollar inflow. so the more we spend abroad, whether on military spending or reading this rate, all this money, recycled. and actually it's the balance of was financing the domestic budget. what is foreign countries by us treasury. so there it goes. they don't buy corporate stocks work or not. so this is an explanation of how the us use the international monetary fun to cont

. >> meanwhile, the biden defense department is focused on critical race theory and the deputy defense secretary in an op-ed is turning her attention not to bringing americans home. but to addressing racial disparities in the military justice system. congress is holding hearings on terrorism this week. not about the people who killed our service men in afghanistan, forget about that. there's bigger threats among us. >> it was an international terrorist threat. if we talk to our intelligence gathering agencies now, they're telling us that that the threat is more of a domestic nature. >> today the right wing violence is a greater risk >> raymond: these are partisans detached from retallty. they're doing everything that they can to avoid responsibility for the real carnage in our midst and avoid american's questions about their culpability. the other night, laura smoke with paula kunis. >> if mr. biden would like to tell me how i can sleep better at night right now or any american can, why he's serving an administration, please give me a call. where in congress, where in our nation's capi

put that in to see how they could make it that proposal was are rejected by the defense department inr words the defense department's words in 2018 did was gain of function research. that's why they rejected it. then they went around that process and fauci put the money through anyway. it's yet another piece of evidence that they were, in fact, behind the experiment that created the pandemic virus. they should be under investigation. they should be receiving subpoenas. they should be facing full accountability for what they did. does zac, ecohealth alliance and fauci instead of which fauci is running around the tv studios like some great heroes and never facing questions on it and getting more taxpayer money. it's outrageous. >> pete: yeah. they just stroked another 250 k of our money. it's amazing. steve hilton, you have been the best on this. we appreciate your time. >> good to see you, pete. >> pete: good to see you. coming up, you know will cain. he has the big heart and dashing good looks. stuck inside this teeny tiny box again. he can't get out of it oh, look at him in there he

and the defense department provides the bulk of support for that effort. >> mr. secretary, when you are at the justice department, did you stay in washington after the attack? >> the attorney general flew back and got there in the afternoon. i stayed with director mueller because a critical thing was to work with him to make sure we could identify and stop anybody out there who was going to carry out a follow-up attack. so we had to first give him the authority to get -- give the fbi the director the authority to use legal tools to get information, and second, to detain people under criminal law , immigration law or some other existing law. >> so which was it? was it a military attack? was it a crime scene and a critic -- criminal event? >> it was both in the sense that the same investigative methods, the same careful police procedures and whatnot -- mike just mentioned the excellent work the fbi did in piecing together pieces of the puzzle that led to the identification of terrorists within a short time. however, that was not the preventive side. that was the cle

, the defense department, putting out a statement saying that is aware of what north korea has done and it is now consulting with its allies. once again, underscoring the long standing position of the united states that the view is that these provocative action by north korea sort of underscores. the destabilizing impact of north korea is weapons program. now the united states is once again reaffirming its security and defense commitment to not only south korea and japan, but the state department going much further condemning the missile large saying is a violation of a number of un security council. resolution ad is once again saying that it is inviting john yang to return to diplomatic talks. and discussions. of course, those talks have essentially stalled since 2019 after north korea asked for sanctions relief and that was rejected by the white house. so there is no question that in washington, this is being viewed as an attempt by north korea to pressure the biden administration. the president is going to be speaking later today. is he likely to address all of this? there are no. th

remember, we had top defense department officials, including the secretary, removed just days before all of this happened. replaced by these cronies of trump, like kashyap patel, who had formerly worked for devin union is. and we know that there was a deliberate effort to keep the national guard, which had to be authorized by the defense department, from going to help out that undermanned police force. people died as a consequence. so this is really hitting a lot of areas that are extraordinarily sensitive. we know that bannon has come pretty close to incriminating himself here, by saying that he had lots of conversations with trump. conversations about blocking biden from becoming president. that is already a smoking gun on the table. but we also know that we are going to need aggressive cooperation from the justice department. there is going to be resistance. they already have a lot of documents and the documents may be even more critical than the testimony. but we are going to have to have a justice department that hold these people and their feet to the fire, and a committee that

with teachers who have a federal overlap, head start teachers, teachers who teach through the defense departmentt using the defense production act and he talked about partnerships with giant retailers with amazon, walmart and kroger. talk about those pieces as sort of a buffer for our kids. >> yeah, any koem. this is actually an extraordinary speech and one of the most effective strategies we have seen in a long time when it comes to going after a major public health crisis. this will go down in the annals of major public health wars against things like smallpox and polio. as far as children in schools are concerned, he was very specific. in fact, we saw a kind of earlier release of the plan today, and it is the opposite of puffery. it is filled with absolute hard-core programs and recommendation for everything from teachers and parents to businesses and so on. actually, it is extremely encouraged by what i heard today. a very impressive show. for parents though, i think it really is important that they do whatever they can as individual parents for their own children, but as well banning togeth

in addition to dhs and the department of defense, the federal agencies working on this include the department of state, health and human services, justice, and education. our goal is to move the vulnerable afghan nationals out of the military bases and have them resettled successfully in the community as swiftly and safely as possible. we are building the public-private partnership to achieve this objective at scale. this is just the beginning of this operation and there is far more to come. here is the bottom line, in just the last few weeks, more than 120 thousand people have been safely evacuated from kabul. among them are thousands of vulnerable afghans. many have worked on behalf of the united states. we have a moral imperative to protect them, to support those who have supported this nation. we have the obligation to do so anyway to protect national security and preserves public safety. at fort lee, one of the military bases designated to receive vulnerable afghan nationals, i heard two stories that help communicate the meaning of our operation and the meaning of our country. when famil

we went to them two days before, it is in writing in department of defense timeline, saying we don't. mark: do you think house commission she sit up with represent -- and boot lickers, will they fit into nancy pelosi role. >> of course not. the second it looks into her action leading to january 6, she will shut it down, that that is unfortunate part of that commission, there has to be a tectonic shift in the commission to go after people like nancy pelosi, i believe that american people need her to testify under oath about her action leading to january 6 and her conversation with chairman milley about nuclear code. mark: maybe they will subpoena her phone calls and e-mails and her records. if final moments, one priority she raised with you, secretary when she called you after january 6, to get the cafeteria at capitol up and running. >> within the hour after ashli babbitt was shot, i was on phone with secretary of defense, shy asked she asked when congressional food services will reopen, i said with all due respect that is not our priority right now, we always put the mission first.

now we have propagandists in this country from the defense department, the state department, and the. highly paid admiral kirby, nick, ed jen psaki and others, and now generals who are part of the propaganda. do you think george patton or omar bradley or the top general george marshall would leave american citizens in enemy territory on the any circumstances or conditions! including at the order of the commander in chief. no commander in chief has ordered any general to leave citizens behind! what about these children and these women. what about the afghan allies, the men that fought next to us firefight after firefight? what about the 182,000 siv visas granted, special visas to patriots who fought side-by-side with americans? instead, we hear that the american citizens did not act fast enough. instead we hear this was a massive success. instead we hear we will use diplomacy to deal with these nazis. instead we hear we may in future work with them against isis as if they are different! it is the taliban that allowed al qaeda to attack us on 9/11! the taliban! they have our equipment!

kimberly yeah, the defense department and the department of state both issuing statements with regard to dismissal lodge by north korea. now, the defense department saying that they are not concerned that any of their allies at the time are particularly at risk or any of the u. s. personnel or territory. but what they are saying is this underscore is it highlights the destabilizing impact of north korea's weapons program. now, the state department going much further saying that it is not only condemning this, but pointing out that it is in violation of a number of un security council. resolutions and that's why the state department is calling for renewed dialog dialog that we know has really stalled since 2019, when the north korea suggested to the united states that it was needing sanctions release. something that was rejected by the united states. so it appears that this latest missile launch is really an attempt to try and get the bite administration attention the president will be speaking later today. is he going to address this? well, there's certainly expected to be questions a

we as a country are much better, the defense department, the department of homeland security that wased after 9/11, the counterterrorism center, our capabilities exponentially improved but that piece from peter doocy about over the horizon taking outer risks and terrorist threats, it is going to be different without intelligence on the ground and there are questions that remain, the last drone strike is in controversy after new york times report there are sources telling us that they think the intel was still good but there's a lot more story to be done about that last strike and who was killed. john: yeah. that is a controversy that appears ready to dog the defense department for quite some time in the future. bret baier, thanks very much. bret: you bet. john: breaking news out of iraq tonight. at least 3 rockets reportedly have landed near irville international airport. american forces currently are stationed there. producer in baghdad says that sirens blared inside the u.s. portion of the airport and local news outlets are reports that have been evacuated. we will bring you new dev

of where i met him over the years also and encountered him writing numerous policies for the defense department including for the policy board. his new book is perfectly timed as capitol hill debating president biden's first defense budget and considering not whether but how much money to add to that request and if it's sufficient what to do about that. we are pleased to have ended this morning and senator jim talent with whom i worked very closely in many years and different think tank capacities. currently set the bipartisan policy center and former senator from missouri. we worked together on the hill. i was a staffer and he was a chairman for we have worked together and on numerous commissions and panels like for example the china connection and weighs in regularly with the best leadership on issues of great import to national security so jim thank you for joining us today. we will -- in a little bit with you but i want to go over the administrative portion today. this is a hybrid world we live in. once or panel discussion gets underway or have the opportunity to send in questions to myself

. >> the biden defense department is focused on critical race. and the deputy defense secretary in about that is turning her attention not to bringing americans home but to addressing racial disparities in the military justice system. congress is holding hearings on terrorism this week not about the people who killed our servicemen in afghanistan. the bigger threats -- >> it was an international terrorist threat. to our intelligence gathering agencies now, that threat landscape is now more of a domestic nature. >> today in the united states the right wing and rights -- white supremacist are a bigger balance. >> these are partisans doing everything they can to avoid responsibility to avoid americans questions about their culpability. the other night laura spoke with the mother of a military hero slain in afghanistan. >> if mister biden would like to tell me how i can sleep better at night or any american can while he's serving and administration please give me a call. where in our nation's capitol, who will stand up and say i messed up? i am respon

it is in writing in our department of defense timeline. it is documented.ncy pelosi's role will be dug in to failing to protect the house of representatives? >> of course not because that commission reports to her. the second it does anything looking into her actions leading up to january 6th, she will shut it down. that's the unfortunate part about a commission that the speaker of the house sets up. it reports directly to her. there would have to be a shift in that commission to go after people like nancy pelosi, and i believe the american people need her to testify under oath about her actions leading up to january 6th and her conversations with chairman milley about the nuclear code. >> mark: maybe they will subpoena her phone calls, her texts, her e-mails, her records so we can find out exactly what took place. in the final moments we have left, to underscore, one of the priorities she raised with you and the secretary when she called you after january 6th was to get the cafeteria at the capitol up and running, is that correct? >> it was within the hour

help do its job at the way the swamp is operated with the contractors going in and out of the defense departmentnd the defense secretary it is truly disgusting when you think of the heroism of the actual fighting men and women. >> absolutely. this is the reason why president eisenhower warned in 1961 of the military industrial complex. since 2009 and this is a story that stayed with me throughout my coverage of the war, i was in a small town in eastern afghanistan, a small version - - a small village they were constructing a hospital at all doctor came up to me and said millions of dollars is what was spent in this hospital. he walked up and kicked to the side of the wall it was made of number two red brick and crumble before me and i saw are right then and there the wasteful spending of our taxpayer dollars in afghanistan. that hospital never lasted. not the way it should have it was supposed to last 20 years we saw this over and over brown university just came up with a study that said we spent over 2 trillion taxpayer dollars since the war in afghanistan including pentagon spending as well as

for cities or towns or military bases the potential fire we can stimulate a buyer also the defense departmenty hundreds and then run the contest the way dod runs contest —- contest for new aircraft. give them the contract and build a bunch. >> coming back to new york from washington the guy said i want brooklyn to be the clean energy capital of the us i said how about we put a reactor and then things got very quiet after that. [laughter] >> that is exactly new york city's classic example of the kind of geography where that make sense. because the threat or the profile from nature and bad actors to get energy into new york that means the geography is not your friend. but anyway. we are getting close to the wrap up time but i have a question that brings us back to where we started. take the question you can choose how to answer it. >> my answer is i was trying to and physics not psychology when you hear what you said about climate science and the study of climate to read your book then it begs the question why? is that because the other analysis is subpar they are not genuine good analysis? the

. >> my administration has already required of teachers at the schools run by the defense department,ause i have the authority as president of the federal system, the defense department and the interior department to get vaccinated. that's authority i possess. >> laura: will your state consider legal action here? >> without question we will consider legal action, lawyers are already communicating amongst one another -- here's the disappointing thing. the president tried to pick a political fight with republican governors when the reality is he is picking a real fight with hardworking americans. 80 million americans, this president is saying to them you can either get vaccinated or i as one individual is going to threaten your ability to feed your family and that is just wrong. >> laura: but he says he wants to protect the workers, it's about protecting them and this is about their safety, they do all sorts of things to ensure their safety. covid is a hazard in the workplace, why isn't this under their purview? >> this is a power grab by the federal government, we seen this time and ti

some people in america think the defense department has way too much money but at this moment they've been shaved over and over again. president trump tried to put more money back in. how do you think that will go when trying to pass a $3.5 trillion in human infrastructure and tie the defense department down with cuts? >> in less than an hour a armed services committee will convene to mark up the defense authorization bill thanks to the leadership of representative rogers we have a chance to increase the top line number for defense spending and taking my bill from yesterday and submitting it as amendments to the bill to conduct basic oversight and insure we aren't abandoning americans to become hostages of of the taliban and sold to al qaeda. i hope we can repair damage that was done but when you have our leaders the highest levels, commander-in-chief continuing to refuse to accept any responsibility. not just blaming the afghan allies but casting american service members as victims of their own chosen profession using us as an excuse to surrender, we chose to fight. we trained to fig